Ozubulu massacre: Police unveil suspected killers

Just three months after the invasion and killing of 18 worshipers at St.
Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Anambra State, the police have unmasked
two persons said to have masterminded the crime.

The Anambra State
Commissioner of Police, Mr Garba Umar, yesterday, at Amawbia near Awka accused two
Nigerians serving murder sentences in South Africa prisons as the
killers of the worshippers.

The suspects, he said, were Prince
Charles aka Gozila and Dickson. Umar stated that Charles and Dickson who
hail from Nnobi and Oba communities of Anambra respectively had
mandated one Mr. Quintus Anayo alias Obasanjo equally based in South
Africa to inform Ozubulu elders that the duo in prison custody were
behind the invasion.

The Police Commissioner said that the
account of Anayo was in line with the investigation of police on the
matter. Umar said that already police had established contact with
Interpol on the need to extradite the suspects based in South Africa.

The police boss said that police in the
state were already intensifying arrangement to arraign the three
suspects earlier arrested in connection with the killings within. They
would be arraigned within the week, he said.

He thanked the public for the
information, which he attributed to the successes already recorded by
police in the investigations. The 18 persons were killed by gunmen while
10 others were injured when they attended early morning Sunday mass at
St. Philip Catholic Church Ozubulu on August 6. The police and the state
government had blamed drug war on the invasion.